Lead Development Systems Engineer

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bpx energy a major oil and gas producer in the United States leverages its expertise in unconventional gas including shale to deliver hydrocarbon production and technical knowledge worldwide. With operations in Texas and Louisiana our US onshore business has become both a premier oil and gas producer and a leader in reducing methane emissions.

As part of BP a global industry leader we foster a high-energy high-intensity environment built on accountability collegiality innovation and empowerment. At bpx we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment where collaboration continuous improvement and inclusion are valued.

Discover your place with us and help our business meet the challenges of reimagining and reinventing the future of energy.

We are seeking a Lead Development Systems Engineer to serve as the senior technical authority for the Corporate Land team. This individual contributor will bridge business operations and technical delivery shaping the architecture roadmap and engineering standards for scalable automation data and AI-enabled solutions. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on engineering capability with the judgment and influence to lead complex work across organizational boundaries.

• Serve as the technical lead and solutions architect for Corporate Land translating complex business needs into scalable supportable technical solutions.
• Own solution architecture and end-to-end delivery for automation data analytics and AI-enabled products from discovery through deployment and lifecycle support.
• Design and guide development of data pipelines queries applications and analytical products using Snowflake Databricks Palantir and related platforms.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns technical standards and quality controls for code testing documentation observability security and deployment.
• Build and maintain a prioritized technical roadmap aligned with Corporate Land strategy business value enterprise architecture and platform direction.
• Lead technical decision-making across complex or ambiguous initiatives evaluating tradeoffs involving scalability maintainability reliability cost and speed.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and partner with data architecture security and business teams to resolve dependencies and accelerate delivery.
• Mentor engineers analysts and business builders through design reviews code reviews coaching and practical knowledge transfer.
• Monitor solution performance reliability adoption and cost; identify technical debt and lead continuous improvement of deployed products.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering Physics or a related technical field or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10 years of experience in software development data engineering automation analytics engineering or a closely related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and end-to-end delivery of complex production-grade data software automation or AI solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL with a track record of producing clean maintainable well-tested code.
• Advanced hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake Databricks or Palantir including data modeling and performance optimization.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture ETL/ELT APIs governance security CI/CD observability and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experience setting technical direction defining reusable standards conducting design and code reviews and mentoring technical contributors.
• Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders navigate ambiguity and make sound decisions across competing priorities.

• Experience in the energy or oil and gas industry particularly with land ownership contracts leases title or related business processes.
• Experience building internal applications workflow tools dashboards or self-service analytics products.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation LLM APIs or deploying AI-enabled applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Experience with data orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow dbt or Databricks Workflows.
• Exposure to data orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow dbt Databricks Workflows).
• Experience with oil and gas land ownership contracts leases and other agreements is a plus.

How much do we pay (Base)

Note that the pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

We offer a reward and wellbeing package designed to support your life both inside and outside of work. Benefits may include:

• Medical dental and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Long-term incentive program
• 401(k) matching program

Must be legally authorized to work full-time in the United States for any employer other than your current employer

Must not require sponsorship now or in the future for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B TN etc.)

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive other employment benefits and privileges. Please contact us to request accommodations.

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